Skate



uNiTED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

FERDINAND KLEIN, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

SKATE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 14,586, dated April 1, 1856.

To all 'whom t may concern Be it known that I, FERDINAND KLEIN, of the city of Newark in the county of EsseX and State of New Jersey, have made a new and useful Improvement in the Construction of Skates; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which drawings are lettered to correspond with and make a part of this specification.

Description-Figure l, represents the bottom of a skate.

I do not Wish the public to infer that I have invented the entire skate, or any part of it excepting the bar (a, a,) Fig. l, that is attached to, and forms a part of the heel plate (b) this bar serves a double purpose, first it gives great strength to the heel of the skate and prevents the stock or wood from splitting, which is more or less the case in the ordinary wooden stock, when the skater is stamping upon the heel in order to drive the end of the screw or spur, into the heel of the boot; the knobs (d, (Z2) on the ends of the bar (a, a,) are to receive and fasten the heel strap (e, e,) which has a small button-hole, at each end instead of the loops, that are in common use. Hence it is not necessary to cut a hole through the heel of the stock, in order to attach the heel strap; the wooden stock itself is made much lighter, and still I retain the greatest amount of strength by means of the application of the metallic bar (a, a). Therefore I do not claim the Wooden stock (A,) neither do I claim the plate (6,) nor the skate iron (C), but n What I claim and wish to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is- The iron bar (a, a,) attached to the heel plate, and having two knobs (d, cZ,) for the purpose substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my 'name in the presence of two Witnesses.

FERDINAND KLEIN. Witnesses:

JAMES I). MCLEAN, ANNE S. MCLEAN. 

